AMERICAN GARDENER, 



Scarlet-blossom, the seed of which is red and 

 black and the seed-pod rough. There is a W trite 

 bean precisely like the former, except that the 

 bean and blossom are white. The Case-knife 

 bean, which, in England, is called the Dutch- 

 runner; this is the best bean of all to eat green. 

 Then there is the Cranberry '-bean of various co- 

 lours as to seed. The izma-bean, which is never 

 eaten green (that is, the Jiod is never eaten,) and 

 which is sometimes called the dieter-bean, has a 

 broad, flat and thin seed of a yellowish-white 

 colour. This bean must never be sown till the 

 ground is right warm. The other sorts will grow 

 and bear well in England ; but this sort will not. 

 I raised good and ripe Indian Corn at Botley ; 

 but, I never could bring a Lima-bean, to per- 

 fection, though I put it in the hottest spot I could 

 find, and though cucumbers produced very well 

 in the natural ground at a yard or twe from it. ~ 

 For tlie raising of dwarf beans on a large scale^ 

 see paragraphs 163 and 164. The pole-beans may 

 be raised in the same way, only with larger spaces 

 (six feet perhaps) between the rows, and without 

 eny fioles at alL The seed for sale is raised 

 in this way even in England, where the climate 

 is so cold and wet compared to this. The poling 

 is a great plague and expense; and if large 

 quantities be raised, it may be dispensed with ^ 

 Day it may be dispensed with in a garden ; for 

 poles look ugly there ; they intercept the view ; 

 and the addition they make to the crop is not 

 a compensation even for ill look, especially under 

 this bright sun, where the ground is almost con- 

 stantly dry* Let it be observed, that every sort 



